Chapter 1304

Forty miles to the west of Dingtao City, tens of thousands of Tang soldiers died in zhaxia barracks on the South Bank of Surabaya. However, if you carefully observe these Tang soldiers, you will find that they are all dejected. In the middle of the big tent, a group of generals are surrounded by a big tent and are reluctant to leave.

Inside the tent, General Xu Rongzheng of Pingnan, the commander of Qianniu army of Tang army, was lying on a stretcher with pale face. Several doctors were busy nearby. Around them, Meng gang and Pang Shanmin were anxiously looking at the busy doctors. Outside the tent gate farther away, there were officials and generals of Shanyang County headed by Liu Yixun and Li Ling.

On the outskirts of the camp, Liu Yi, the Deputy General of Canglang camp, is leading the soldiers to patrol the camp, but he can't help looking at the Chinese Army's tent. It's obvious that most of his thoughts are on General Xu Rong of Pingnan.

At the end of this afternoon, after Meng Gang ordered the troops in Changyi to retreat, his deputy general Liu Yi immediately led 5000 cavalry troops to guard Pang Shanmin and other officials toward the west gate. At this time, the 20000 soldiers in Changyi had lost 5000 or 6000 people. In addition to the soldiers scattered on the four walls, Meng Gang finally led no more than 10000 soldiers out of the city.

After entering the city, the Qi army did not stop attacking the Tang army. With Cao Cao's command, the Qi army left only 10000 troops to eliminate the remaining Tang soldiers in the city. The rest of the Qingzhou army, Wuwei camp, Zhonglei camp and Cao Ren's Rencheng combat camp, with a total of more than 30000 Qi troops, followed closely the pursuit of menggang.

The Qi army pursued and killed all the way, and the Tang army resisted all the way. Then they waited for an opportunity to retreat. The two armies pursued and stopped in this way. It was not until the afternoon that the menggang army and the 15000 army led by Xu Rong joined.

Seeing the smoke and dust in front of him, Xu Rong, who got the reward of denouncing the Marquis, immediately ordered the army to line up and prepare to meet the Qi army and take back his troops.

Although Xu Rong's troops had been away for nearly a day, they were still different from the Qi army, which had been slaughtered for a day. Therefore, 15000 Xu Rong's soldiers still blocked the Qi army's attack, and took over the Mongolian army with less than 10000 soldiers left behind.

However, at this time, the 5000 Qi tiger and leopard cavalry, which had never been seen, suddenly appeared in the south of the battlefield and made a direct attack on Xu Rong's Chinese army. Facing the outstanding Qi cavalry, Xu Rong had to lead the cavalry to meet them and prepare to block them out of the battlefield. Only Xu Rong led only 5000 ordinary cavalry. How could they be five The opponent of the thousand tigers and leopards.

After a slaughter, more than half of the five thousand Tang cavalry lost, while the tiger and leopard cavalry lost only one thousand. The most important thing is that Xu Rong, who was not good at long-term force and was too old, was cut off by all in the battle with Cao Xiu, the general of the tiger and leopard cavalry. If Xu Rong's own soldiers had not spared no efforts to save him and sent him out of the battlefield, Xu Rong would have died on the spot.

The life and death of the general was unknown, which not only did not reduce the morale of the Tang army, but also aroused the hearts of more than 20000 Tang army. After Meng Gang handed over the infantry to Liu Yi and Li Ling, he personally led the remaining 3000 cavalry of Canglang camp. After meeting with more than 2000 cavalry of Qianniu camp, he launched a desperate attack on Qi army's tiger and leopard cavalry, and finally defeated them.

After that, the two armies went on strike separately. At this time, the Tang army was able to withdraw at ease. Meng Gang wanted to evacuate overnight, but when he was more than 40 miles away from Dingtao, Xu Rong's injury worsened. As a last resort, Meng gang had to order the army to camp and control Xu Rong's injury before making other plans.

Meng Gang ordered the army to set up camp, and sent out a hundred cavalry at night to report to Dingtao City, and then quietly waited for the doctor's treatment.

In Dingtao City, less than two hours after Huangfu Chaobo lay down, he was awakened by Gao Shun, who was on duty outside: "king, I have news from General Xu Rong and general Meng Gang!"

"How are they?" Huangfu Chaobo immediately woke up, turned over and got up;

GAO Shun opened the door, came in and said: "the situation is not very good. Now there are less than 20000 people left in the two armies, which is not the most important, the important thing is..."

Seeing Gao Shun's desire to talk and stop, Huangfu Chaobo felt a sense of foreboding. He quickly asked, "tell me, if there is any bad news, tell me directly."

"The news about Juxiu is not very clear. I just heard that General Xu Rong was seriously injured, so the army didn't rush back to Dingtao overnight. Instead, they set up a camp 40 miles west of Dingtao. General Meng Gang is going to deal with General Xu Rong's injury first, and then return to Dingtao tomorrow."

Under the pursuit of the enemy, he even gave up the overnight evacuation. Is Xu Rong seriously injured?

"Where is the man sent?" Huangfu Chaobo put on his clothes and asked;

"the general has arranged people in the front hall!" Gao Shun replied quickly;

"OK, I'll be right there!" With that, Huangfu Chaobo got up and went to the hall in front of him, and soon the party came to the hall.

After seeing the bloody Messenger, Huangfu Chaobo immediately asked, "how is general Xu?"

"Report to the king, the general is not very clear. When the army is encamped, the general will set out with his cavalry. However, when General Xu was rescued, he was covered with blood and his whole body was unconscious. ""Damn, why is this happening? Tell me the details of the whole war! "

The messenger didn't dare to neglect and told the whole war in detail. Only then did Huangfu Chaobo understand the whole war. He was also very helpless about this situation. The ultimate reason was that the cavalry was not here. If there were 10000 elite cavalry on the scene, Xu Rong would not be able to take the risk personally.

"Come on, gather all the doctors in the city immediately, send 2000 cavalry to escort them to the camp, carefully inspect General Xu Rong's injuries, and tell Meng gang that the army should not act rashly. Tomorrow morning, I will lead the army to meet him in person!" After thinking about it, Huang Fu Chao Bo ordered;

Wang Xiu immediately sent people to gather several senior doctors in the city, and Dian Wei immediately arranged two thousand guards to escort them to the army camp.

At dawn the next day, Huangfu Chaobo handed over the defense of Dingtao city to Mu Shun and led the rest of the guards to the camp 40 Li west of Dingtao. The distance of more than 40 Li was less than an hour for the cavalry. Soon, Huangfu Chaobo arrived outside the west gate of the camp.